George Butler

I was there.

I know what you did.

I know how passionately you worked around the clock to make magic happen.

You were the magicians, no matter what the wizards of our new Oz make it look like going forward.

I will never forget.

And beyond, James, may I just add, across the business, they've kind of taken away thousands of jobs.

Yeah, I wonder if Evangeline Lilly will be working with Disney and Josh DiMario anytime soon.

I've got a feeling not.

Final one on acting.

Oscars have announced AI actors and AI writing cannot win awards.

This isn't particularly surprising, James, is it?

Yeah, the only thing to note is the Academy did not ban AI entirely, so if it's used in the films in other areas, perhaps CGI, lighting, whatever it might be, films won't be punished and it won't hurt a film's chances of winning.

So, yeah, I mean, there's almost an acceptance there that you're going to inevitably have AI in the making of a film now.

It's kind of going to be part of the process going forward, just not in place of...

human acting and human writing.

So interesting.

Final, final news story for the week.

We touched upon it at the very start of the show.

ChachiBT over the last few weeks has apparently gone into goblin mode.

Again, I'm going to plug forward to our interview with Dr. Lauren Ingram coming out on Monday.